New meters won't allow smartphone payments

9:19 PM,
Feb. 24, 2014

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All of Cincinnati's meters most likely will accept credit cards in the coming months, but the technology upgrades will stop there for now - users will not be able to pay for parking from their mobile phones.

City Council's Neighborhoods Committee on Monday approved paying to upgrade the rest of the city's meters to accept credit cards and hiring more enforcement officers in an attempt to improve an inefficient and under-enforced system.

As expected, the committee also voted for City Council to keep control over the entire system - essentially ending the possibility of ...